The History of Cinema Sound in Infographics: From ‘The Jazz Singer’ to ‘Gravity’

The History of Cinema Sound in Infographics: From 'The Jazz Singer' to 'Gravity'

This infographic from Dolby documents the
development of cinema sound technology from some of the first scratchy
sounds in the earliest “talkies” nearly 90 years ago to the stereo era of the 1970s and finally, to the incredibly rich audio of current
films like “Gravity,” which features Dolby Atmos sound.